Leadership Personal Reflection

PSALM 8

A psalm of David.

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise

because of your enemies, to silence the foe and avenger.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and

the stars which you have set in place,

what are mere mortals that you are mindful of them,

human beings that you care for them?

You have made them a little lower than the heavenly beings,

and crowned them with glory and honour.

You made them rulers over the works of your hands;

you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and

the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea,

all that swim the paths of the seas.

Lord, our Lord,

How majestic is your name in all the earth!

Genesis 2:7: “The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils, and the man became a living being ( nepes in the Hebrew language).”

Nepes means to breath, life, a living creature, soul, mind, person.

“Man is not merely a physical being…however; he has a ruah (spirit) and heart. He was made in God’s image, and is the object of God’s love… nepes can stand for the entire person.” Key Word Bible Dictionary

Heart is also a central concept about human beings in the Bible.

It is seen as the centre of things.

“It was essentially the whole man, with all his attributes, physical, intellectual and psychological…the heart was conceived of as the governing centre for all of these…’heart’ comes the nearest of the NT terms to mean ‘person’.” New Bible Dictionary

PSYCHOLOGY: A Person is a Whole Being—

BIO-PSYCHO-SOCIAL-SPIRITUAL.